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G.L. Baker, big transporters of gas bottles back in the day, but that photo demonstrates much that was wrong with that era of British lorries. I loved my Big J, but hated that offside blowing exhaust. Noisy and dirty, if you fancied your window open on a warm day and the wind was in the wrong direction, you got gassed as well. I always envied the Yanks for doing what all sensible house builders did, and got rid of the muck to the sky.
Spardo:
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BuzzerG.L. Baker, big transporters of gas bottles back in the day, but that photo demonstrates much that was wrong with that era of British lorries. I loved my Big J, but hated that offside blowing exhaust. Noisy and dirty, if you fancied your window open on a warm day and the wind was in the wrong direction, you got gassed as well. I always envied the Yanks for doing what all sensible house builders did, and got rid of the muck to the sky.
Front exhausts were a safety thing I seem to remember: Don`t want hot pipes nor hot gases under the front of the trailer, nor blowing over the top, especially sheeted loads getting soot covered.
As you say though, very noisy and smellie.
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BuzzerG.L. Baker, big transporters of gas bottles back in the day, but that photo demonstrates much that was wrong with that era of British lorries. I loved my Big J, but hated that offside blowing exhaust. Noisy and dirty, if you fancied your window open on a warm day and the wind was in the wrong direction, you got gassed as well. I always envied the Yanks for doing what all sensible house builders did, and got rid of the muck to the sky.
Front exhausts were a safety thing I seem to remember: Don`t want hot pipes nor hot gases under the front of the trailer, nor blowing over the top, especially sheeted loads getting soot covered.
As you say though, very noisy and smellie.
Thought they were manly designed for tankers carrying inflammable loads for safety reasons & as you say to keep the heat and possible sparks at a distance. Vertical stacks were all the rage and we fitted many Emminox systems in the past but they used to dirty the top of a nice clean white fridge trailer weather they were straight up or had a flip out top, Buzzer
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Franglais:
Spardo:
Buzzer:
BuzzerG.L. Baker, big transporters of gas bottles back in the day, but that photo demonstrates much that was wrong with that era of British lorries. I loved my Big J, but hated that offside blowing exhaust. Noisy and dirty, if you fancied your window open on a warm day and the wind was in the wrong direction, you got gassed as well. I always envied the Yanks for doing what all sensible house builders did, and got rid of the muck to the sky.
Front exhausts were a safety thing I seem to remember: Don`t want hot pipes nor hot gases under the front of the trailer, nor blowing over the top, especially sheeted loads getting soot covered.
As you say though, very noisy and smellie.Thought they were manly designed for tankers carrying inflammable loads for safety reasons & as you say to keep the heat and possible sparks at a distance. Vertical stacks were all the rage and we fitted many Emminox systems in the past but they used to dirty the top of a nice clean white fridge trailer weather they were straight up or had a flip out top, Buzzer
Whatever the reason I nearly got gassed at least once when leaving the engine ticking over in a vain attempt at heat and the wind changed during the night, especially in an Atki with its draughty cab construction. At least the steel cabs had little or no draughts. But I know what you mean about soot. I once had the brilliant idea to place a lit paraffin heater on the bonnet of my Albion, the flat round sort designed to place under Dad’s car in the garage to assure warm oil and easy starting on a winter’s morning, in order to climb into a nice warm cab the next day. The cab was warm alright, but I couldn’t see a thing out of the thick soot blackened windows. 
Also some housewives were not impressed when I drove down Buntingford High St. one morning blowing all the empty milk bottles over on the doorsteps. 
When I was a kid instead of investing my hard scrounged pocket money on “Spank monthly” I would cough up 2 bob for a copy of “Commercial Motor” or a "Motor Transport " .As they piled up in the corner of my bedroom my mum decided it would be a good idea to chuck them away,after the threat to leave home didn’t work a compromise was to cut out the bestist bits and create a scrapbook,the result of this was 1000’s of cuttings that ended up in a box. here are a few of them ,they may be of interest to someone. Marc
Hope you like them
Great,let’s have some more!
I remember seeing one of those Krupp cabbed Atkis in Southampton about 1971,made me do a double take after spotting the big “A” on the front.I was driving a Gardner 180 Atki mk 2 like the one in the first pic at the time.
I too used to spend my pocket money on Commercial Motor and Motor Transport as opposed to Spick or Span mags (they were handy pocket sized mags of a certain nature that may have appealed to young boys like myself .Apparently. 
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Unfortunately,my mum and I never worked out a compromise,so when the wardrobe door finally wouldn’t close,they all got put in the dustbin along with hundreds of brochures from AEC,Guy,Leyland,Volvo etc. 
But I’ve always kept my Scania brochures,got one for the 110 that’s dated 1968 I think.
Some wonderful pics there,especially that Ferrymasters AEC outfit.I had the Corgi model with the Scammell unit,still got the unit somewhere,but the trailer is long gone.Probably failed the MoT.
And who ran that F reg F88?
More please!
Righto a few more then but first to answer KWs question ,the operator of the “F” reg 88 was Turkish trading and transport.
Thats it for today 
but more on sunday Cheers Marc.
Marc This is great stuff brings back so many memories keep going Please.
Excellent thread 
, very interesting 
Keep em going got a tear in my eye here my dad worked at cyprien fox at tower hill then got moved to chobham farm stratford they used to go all europe with them old atkis and then the clarkson group split it to Howe european Enfield and alltransport stratford wear they had 2 of those atkis a big j v6 ■■■■■■■ and a lhd 110 scania and early alltransport fridges and tilts with speedex shipping on Boyzee remembers that merc of SGH i bet
What great pictures! I ordered Truck magazine when it first appeared in my local newsagent but the lady refused to sell it to me because it had ■■■■ girls in it! My mum told her it was the trucks i was interested in so she was ok after that.
keep them coming
Keep,em coming Marc - Brilliant